Wednesday, July 12, 2017

White offenders convicted of a crime carrying a mandatory minimum
sentence are receiving more severe punishments than any other race,
according to a United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) study.

The USSC released its comprehensive review
of the federal justice system’s mandatory minimum penalties Tuesday in
its first review of the penalties since 2011. The study found that
unlike 2011, white offenders, as opposed to black offenders, had the
highest average sentence among offenders convicted of a crime carrying a
mandatory minimum penalty. White people also had the highest sentences
among offenders who had obtained sentence reductions.

White people were sentenced to an average of 127 months, blacks to 119 months, and Hispanic people to 93 months.

If President Trump's nominee for FBI director is confirmed by the
Senate, the Democratic National Committee could face an investigation
into its interactions with the Ukrainian government.
During his confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Christopher Wray
signaled a willingness to investigate allegations that the DNC worked
with the Ukrainian government to impede Trump's presidential campaign in
2016.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., read an excerpt from Politico's January investigation
into the matter during his allotted time to question Wray. "Donald
Trump wasn't the only presidential candidate whose campaign was boosted
by officials of a former Soviet bloc country," Graham quoted from the
report.

Evidence shows that John Roberts, chief justice of the United States
Supreme Court, was “hacked” by a Deep State surveillance operation
overseen by Obama administration CIA director John Brennan and Obama
director of national intelligence James Clapper.

Roberts, the Bush appointee who made the decisive vote to uphold the
constitutionality of Obamacare before the 2012 election, was allegedly
the victim of the same Deep State surveillance program that spied on
President Donald Trump.

The White House has said it "strongly objects" to a House proposal
that keeps the military from closing billions of dollars worth of unused
facilities around the country in 2018.

The pushback came from the Office of Management and Budget in a
statement Tuesday on the House's annual defense policy bill, which was
passed by committee late last month and now is headed toward a floor
vote this week.

The Armed Services
Committee included a section in the bill that bars the Defense
Department from shuttering any facilities as part of the Base
Realignment and Closure program, or BRAC.

Tucker Carlson found himself compared to the aviation hero and fascist sympathizer Charles Lindbergh Tuesday.

And no, it had nothing to do with trans-Atlantic flights.

It all started when Fox News contributor Ralph Peters took issue with
The Daily Caller co-founder asking how Russian President Vladimir Putin
is a threat to America’s interests. “You sound like Charles Lindbergh
in 1938 saying ‘Hitler hasn’t attacked us,’” Peters told Carlson.

The two continued fighting over how America should operate in the
world, with Carlson demanding answers as to how Russia, Iran and the
Assad regime in Syria are serious threats to America. Peters argued that
they were, and indicated America should use military options to seek
regime change in all three countries.

I recently
made a comment on one of Bernie Goldberg's latest columns purporting to
give advice, unsolicited of course, to President Trump. My having the
temerity to point out that Bernie had never had anything nice or
supportive of the President from the moment he announced his candidacy
and as such there would be no reason to expect Trump would read his
column or take his advice so that substantively it was little more than
just another list of complaints being spewed into the echo chamber of
the neocon blogosphere.This wasn't
the first time I found myself being criticised for commenting on his
columns with words to the effect "Well if you don't like what Bernie
says what do you bother reading him or commenting?" I swear some of
these people live in Plato's cave.

There was a time both before and after the War when the South dominated
the United States Congress. In the antebellum period, James Madison,
John C. Calhoun, John Randolph of Roanoke, and Henry Clay placed their
mark on congressional debates, and several other Southerners ranked
among the best statesmen of the era. But most Americans, even those in
the South, don’t realize that by the mid-twentieth century, Southerners
controlled every major committee in the Senate and played a
substantial role in the legislative proceedings of both houses of
Congress.

This process began during the Wilson administration and
continued virtually unabated until the 1970s. The “Southern Bloc”
mentored promising young Southern congressmen by grooming them for
power. Southerners held the formal procedures of Congress in high regard
and considered being a United States Senator a position of honor and
respect.

“You’re allowed legally to use material that was obtained illegally as
long as you had nothing to do with the illegal nature of obtaining the
information”

Lawyer and lifelong Democrat, Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax
Wednesday that he doesn’t see any crime committed by Donald Trump Jr. in
regards to his meeting with the Russian lawyer.

Alan Dershowitz was asked if he thinks Donald Trump Jr. did anything
illegal or inappropriate. He responded by saying, “I don’t see any crime
at this point. I think if there was any coordination, even if the worst
case scenario as far as we know now is the Russians get in touch with
Trump Jr. and say we have some dirt on Hillary Clinton…and he goes and
gets the information.”

Dershowitz goes on to explain that it’s exactly what the New York
Times in the Pentagon Papers. “That’s what the Washington Post did and
many other newspapers did with information from Snowden and Manning.”

"When I worked for Clinton, Clinton called me and said, 'I want to
get Yeltsin elected as president of Russia against Gennady Zyuganov, who
was the communist who was running against him. Putin was Zyuganov's
major backer.

"It became public that Clinton would meet with me every week. We
would review the polling that was being done for Yeltsin that was being
done by a colleague of mine, who was sending it to me every week. We,
Clinton and I, would go through it and Bill would pick up the hotline
and talk to Yeltsin and tell him what commercials to run, where to
campaign, what positions to take. He basically became Yeltsin's
political consultant.

"I think that Putin resented that, hated it, thought that it was an
inappropriate intervention by Bill Clinton and I think he's determined
to take his revenge out on Hillary Clinton."

Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine took advantage of the state’s lax gift laws to
receive an $18,000 Caribbean vacation, $5,500 in clothes and a trip to
watch George Mason University play in the NCAA basketball Final Four
during his years as lieutenant governor and governor, according to
disclosures he filed.

Nemias Garcia-Velasco, 32, was charged with motor vehicle homicideHe reportedly told officers he had '12 beers' before getting behind wheelPrsosecutors say he was going over 100mph when he lost control of vanThe crash killed Silvano Torres, 58, who was riding in the cargo area of the vanProsecutors said Garcia-Velasco has been removed from US total of seven times

Donald Trump Jr. fought back yesterday against the increasingly
desperate shrieking from the tinfoil-hat Left by publishing online the
emails that led to his innocuous campaign-season meeting a year ago with
Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.

By releasing the chain
of emails leading to the much ballyhooed but brief get-together at the
Trump Tower in Manhattan, Donald Jr. is hoping to dispel any notion that
the Trump campaign somehow colluded with the Russian government to
affect the outcome of the November 2016 election. (I wrote about the
Trump Jr. meeting story yesterday here at FrontPage before the emails became available.)

The emails do not indicate any knowledge of Russian government
wrongdoing, such as hacking, or Trump campaign involvement in such
activities. Yet the mainstream media is going berserk, hyping the
overheated ravings of leftist idiots like Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) whose
disastrous performance in the vice presidential debate against
Republican Mike Pence may have helped to sink the Democrat ticket last
year.

Jeff Brauer, a professor at Keystone College, has been
researching the political leanings of Generation Z, concluding that the
next generation differs substantially from millennials. His findings
show that Gen Z is more fiscally conservative than millennials were, and
generally resemble the politics of moderate Republicans.

The Professor says “Politically, Generation Z is liberal-moderate
with social issues, like support for marriage equality and civil rights,
and moderate-conservative with fiscal and security issues,”.

Adding:
“While many are not connected to the two major parties and lean
independent, Gen Z’s inclinations generally fit moderate Republicans.”

“I would find half of a billion dollars of that right out of Planned Parenthood's budget," he told the Examiner.
"And the rest of it could come out of food stamps and the entitlements
that are being spread out for people that haven't worked in three
generations.

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) is calling for using federal
funding for Planned Parenthood and food stamps to help pay for President
Trump’s southern border wall, the Washington Examiner reported
Wednesday.

On Tuesday, the House Appropriations Committee introduced
a spending bill that would allocate $1.6 billion toward building the
wall separating the U.S. from Mexico. The funding is part of the total
$13.8 billion for Customs and Border Protection.

King
said he supports the spending measure, but he would prefer an additional
$5 billion for the wall — and suggested taking the extra funding from
Planned Parenthood and federal welfare programs.

“I would find half of a billion dollars of that right out of Planned Parenthood's budget," he told the Examiner.
"And the rest of it could come out of food stamps and the entitlements
that are being spread out for people that haven't worked in three
generations.

Liberal constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley laid to rest many of
the claims Tuesday from the media and politicos of illegality and
collusion surrounding Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a
“Kremlin-connected” lawyer.

Turley, a legal scholar at George Washington University, batted
away claims of criminality, asking “does any of this constitute a clear
crime or even a vague inkblot image of a crime?” His answer: no, not on
the facts.

North Carolina GOP Sen. Thom Tillis is demanding
the Department of Homeland Security hand over more H-2B worker visas
before he allows Senate approval of a top homeland security official.

President Donald Trump has appointed Lee Francis Cissna to
serve as director of the DHS’s critical U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services agency. The agency is responsible for screening arrivals and
immigrants to prevent jihad attacks and other terrorism. Cissna
has been approved by the Senate committee, but he won’t get a Senate
approval vote soon because Tillis asked the GOP’s leader to put a
so-called “hold” on the nomination.

Tillis put the hold in Cissna because he wants John Kelly, the
Secretary of Homeland Security, to provide more H-2B work visas so
employers can import thousands of additional blue-collar, low-wage
foreign workers this summer, fall, and winter. The extra workers will
allow the companies to minimize wages and training for Americans,
including non-working Americans.

The North Carolina Senator has repeatedly said he wants to let companies hire more cheap-labor contract workers. Before being elected in 2006, he worked as a manager at IBM and at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Both firms are heavily involved in the white-collar outsourcing business.

An April poll showed Tillis has roughly 39 percent approval in his home state, according to the McClathchy news service, but he does not face the voters until 2020.

Remembrance

To die for one’s country is not only an act of bravery, it is THE act of bravery. For soldiers, it is just an extension of their military career, a part of their duty. As leaders have asked their soldiers to sacrifice themselves for the good of the society, it is only right for leaders to go through the same motion. They should practice what they have preached.

As war is seen as a noble act, tu sat serves as redemption in case of defeat. It is also a way to tell the enemy: “You might have won the battle/war but you don’t deserve to win because you don’t have the chinh nghia (just cause).” And it is not only just cause: it is the moral belief that the cause they are fighting for deserves their total sacrifice. Continues below

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.